[Report 1947] / Medical Officer of Health, Elstree R.D.C.
- Elstree (England). Rural District Council.
- Date:
- 1947
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1947] / Medical Officer of Health, Elstree R.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![SECTION A STATISTICS AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS OF THE AREA Area 8,339 acres Population, 1921 Census 4.513 Population, 1931 Census *5.946 Registrar-General’s estimate of {a) resident population mid-1947 ... | (b) average population appropriate to the r ii,(S6o calculation of death rates ... i Number of inhabited houses ( Elstreg 2,107 ] (end of 1947) according i Shenley 609 1 2,791 to Rate Books ( Ridge 75 t Rateable Value (ist April, 1948) £122,793 Estimated product of a penny rate (ist April 1948) £485 * Adjusted in respect of alteration of boundary in 1935. SOCIAL CONDITIONS The District comprises the parishes of Shenley and Ridge which are chiefly agricultural and residential, and Elstree. In Elstree the principal occupations are industrial, more par- ticularly the film studios and allied industries, photographic processing, knitting miUs, electrical accessories and light engin- eering. Elstree is to some extent residential, particularly on the west side of the L.M.S. Railway line. On the East side of the L.M.S. Station, in the Boreham Wood portion of the parish, considerable development has taken place in the past decade. A number of new factories were erected immediately prior to and during the war. Various types of industry are represented including the manufacture of cosmetics and pharmaceutical chemicals, petrol tanks, pistons, ventilation equipment as well as printing and light engineering works.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29191294_0006.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
